Owning a ball python is a long-term commitment as they can live to between 20 and 30 years old. "I got her when she was 4 months old," Mia told Newsweek. "She is now nearly 6 years old." ...

AN UNINVITED GUEST  The sheriff's office not only removed the python from the pool party, it found the snake a home with one of its deputies.

A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too.

Larger ball pythons typically eat larger mice or rats. Selecting prey for a ball python. As a general rule, you should select a rodent that is 1 to 1.25 times the size of the midsection of your snake.

Rats; Shrews; Jerboas; Other small mammals; ... It’s still possible for a ball python to bite you, and their bites are painful. Ball pythons have around 150 teeth that are 1 centimeter long.

Snakes primarily bite in self-defense, often due to fear, hunger, or stress from poor handling. However, some species, ...

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a ball python slithered out of a toilet and bit a South Florida man on the arm. Coral Springs police spokesman Chris Swinson said the man was treated ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her.

Luckily, pythons found in the Everglades and other places in Florida are not venomous.But a bite is a bite and it can hurt and there can be blood. Siewe, who is known as the 'Python Huntress' has ...

Police are looking for a 7-foot-long Bredli python, a 7-foot-long rat snake and two juvenile ball pythons that are just over a foot long. None of the snakes are venomous, but anyone who spots them ...

A snake owner has shared how her pet snake accidentally mistook her hand for a rat, leading to an unfortunate bite. Mia lives in Western Washington and has had her ball python Aphrodite for five ...